Monday, June 15, 2009
Built in 1928 and designed by Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye stands as an early example of International Style architecture. It was built as a weekend country house in a meadow just outside the city of Poissy. During World War II it fell into ruin but has since been restored.
Villa Savoye is made out of concrete and plastered unit masonry, exemplifying Corbusier’s Five Points of Architecture. Formulated in 1926 they included: (1) the pilotis elevating the mass off the ground, (2) the free plan, achieved through the separation of the load-bearing columns from the walls subdividing the space, (3) the free facade, the corollary of the free plan in the vertical plane, (4) the long horizontal sliding window and finally (5) the roof garden, restoring, supposedly, the area of ground covered by the house.
Villa Savoye is made out of concrete and plastered unit masonry, exemplifying Corbusier’s Five Points of Architecture. Formulated in 1926 they included: (1) the pilotis elevating the mass off the ground, (2) the free plan, achieved through the separation of the load-bearing columns from the walls subdividing the space, (3) the free facade, the corollary of the free plan in the vertical plane, (4) the long horizontal sliding window and finally (5) the roof garden, restoring, supposedly, the area of ground covered by the house.
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